C'mon guys...
But really - boxrec isn't the correct way necessarily to argue a point, but it can be very useful - anyone here know ANY of the fighters on there prior to Alfred Cole & Zuri Lawrence? OK - and we know where they rank in the division...
We've got a well-past prime Lance Whitaker on his record - a DRAW with Ray Austin, who also has zero quality wins on his record (Owen Beck turned out "Not" to be quality), a win over Javier Mora, who is only a notable name in the division for happening to be the guy who stepped on Kirk Johnson's foot and briefly hold a TKO win til it was reversed...
And then we have Shannon Briggs, who fought a weaker group of opponents than Holyfield to "earn" his title shot, then struck gold with a lucky KO punch in the 12th down on every scorecard...
Ibragimov will likely win, but if it's dominating, it will be the best 'W' on his resume, or at least even with one-hit-wonder-in-the-second-career Briggs...
But really - boxrec isn't the correct way necessarily to argue a point, but it can be very useful - anyone here know ANY of the fighters on there prior to Alfred Cole & Zuri Lawrence? OK - and we know where they rank in the division...
We've got a well-past prime Lance Whitaker on his record - a DRAW with Ray Austin, who also has zero quality wins on his record (Owen Beck turned out "Not" to be quality), a win over Javier Mora, who is only a notable name in the division for happening to be the guy who stepped on Kirk Johnson's foot and briefly hold a TKO win til it was reversed...
And then we have Shannon Briggs, who fought a weaker group of opponents than Holyfield to "earn" his title shot, then struck gold with a lucky KO punch in the 12th down on every scorecard...
Ibragimov will likely win, but if it's dominating, it will be the best 'W' on his resume, or at least even with one-hit-wonder-in-the-second-career Briggs...
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